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I have a Acer Aspire One D270-268kk mini laptop. It currently has 500GB hard drive, Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 processor (1.60 GHz), 2GB RAM and is a 32-bit OS (Windows 7). I want to upgrade my PC so ...

I am reading this book and so far, being in chapter 3, I understand that multiprogramming and multiprocessing allows for faster execution of multiple existing processes/threads. I am reading into all ...

I heard a 3D modeller say that when he renders a scene he uses multiple machines to do it because simply the hardware is not powerful enough and he is using the collective computational power of more ...

The ASUS Transformer Book Trio TX201LA is a dual-processor, dual-memory, dual-storage laptop which also runs 2 different operating systems. But can one,somehow, run just one instance of Windows 8.1 on ...

I have a dual processor system, each processor supporting 8 threads, so the OS should report 16 cores, which Linux does. But Windows shows just ten of them (even the 64-bit version). Six cores were ...

I am in the process of buying a Dell T620 server with two E5-2660v2 processors and 128GB of RAM. Dell told me that if I order 128GB of RAM I had to have 64GB per processor. Why is this?
Let's say I'm ...

I was comparing various desktop/server processors on Intel's website and found that Xenon Coprocessor family constitutes 61 cores. (firstly, this name lead me to think as if this would be a secondary ...

windows 7 or 8 does not support quad socket mother boards. by quad socket i mean that there are 4 processors. each can have a bunch of cores. so if it's 16-core amd processor, it would be 4*16 = 64 ...

This article gives this comparison chart for the four Windows 8 Editions (Core is usually just called Windows 8). I notice specifically, about half-way down, the max physical processors is listed as 1 ...

What are some BIOS settings that I should tweak to maximize performance of a dual-CPU workstation (if I don't care about power consumption)? I have an ASUS Z8NA-D6.
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I have two Xeon x5670s on ...

Suppose a system has 4 Intel Xeon processors
each having 10 physical cores
with HyperThreading enabled which makes a total of 80 cores
Now it is completely confusing when in documentation they start ...

Windows 2003 DataCenter x64 supports up-to 64 physical processors.
Support Microsoft
Now what does this exactly mean ? Number of logical CPUs or the number of physical processors i.e. four intel i7s ...

I would like to do this so I can accurately speed test my processes, and just to be able to have the illusion of control.
Maybe I want to reserve one processor for special programs. Maybe I want to ...

I work in a research institute and a number of programs we use are computationally intensive (I actually wrote one of them). Right now we have one computer that is dedicated for one of these programs ...

How can I limit Windows 7 x64 to use only one core of one CPU?
I already tried this and rebooted but it seemed to have no effect. Task Manager still shows four columns that were all in use from time ...

I'm new in this computer terms. So anyone can explain to me what "virtual cores" and "hyperthreading" are at greatest detail a layman can understand?
People told me that virtual cores are imaginary ...

When programs on my laptop crash, they sometimes start hogging CPU. I have noticed that some processes use 50% (like firefox, various games) but a few use 100% like (VLC, GOM) etc.
Does this have do ...

I recently read about processors(mainly multi-processor) and i came across, what is called as multi-level caches. I know that they have several cache in this case, for increasing the performance. But ...

Is it correct to say, for example, that a processor with four cores each running at 3GHz is in fact a processor running at 12GHz?
I once got into a "Mac vs. PC" argument (which by the way is NOT the ...

I'm looking to buy a new laptop (the new studio 14 from Dell). The processor for this laptop is an Intel Core i5-520M.
Think link http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-10379487-10355804.html says that ...

I don't know if this is possible or makes sense to do anyway, but I was thinking - could I somehow add my netbooks processor to another computer to act as an external core for better performance on ...